Monitory combination weighing-scale.



PATENTED JAN. 21, 1908..

' H. MARER.

MONITORY COMBINATION WEIGHING SCALE.

APPLIOATION FILED AUG. 2. 1907.

INVENTOR BY MMM M ATTORNEY ing small quantities accurately,

HENRY MARER, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUOKXQ' ASSIGNOR TO MONITORY SCALE OHPANY,

INCORPORATED, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, A CORPORA ION OF KENTUCKY.

MONITORY COMBINATION WEIGHING-SCALE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 21, 1908.

Application filed August 2. 1907. Serial No. 386.800.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY MAKER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Louisville, in the county of Jefferson and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Monitory Combination W eighing-Sfles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates especially to grocers scalesbeing adapted to weighing merchandise, such as sugar, for example, which is poured gradually into the scale pan until a desired quantity is attained.

It is well known that even scales, comprising a beam pivoted at the middle and having a pan at each end, are more accurate than scales which depend for their operation upon tension, compression, or torsion springs or other instrumentalities. A serious difficulty which the grocer has experiences with even scales is that he cannot tell when he is approaching the full measure of the quantity desired, and therefore, generally, an excess quantity is cured into the scale, necessitating remova of the excess to balance the scales. If the customer is present when this is done, the act may be regarded as parsimonious, and so the excess is generally giv n to the loss of the dealer. The difficulty exEerienced with the spring scales has been t at, while they indicate gradually the amount of merchandise put into the plan, yet, when they are constructed to weig large quantities, they are not sufficiently sensitive and it has been found desirable to have different scales in the same store of different seizes to weigh different quantities. This occasions an extra outlay for scales, and the scales occupy space which could be used otherwise to good advantage. I have overcome these difficulties by combining the even scale and the spring scale in the way hereinafter described.

The objects of my improvement are to avoid the dilliculties just mentioned, and to do this in an effective manner, and by meanism which is simple in construction, durable, and comparatively immune from derangement. These objects I attain by means of the mechanism illustrated. in the accompanying drawing in which Figure 1 is a top plan view; and Fig. 2 is a side elevation with a portion of the base broken away to show the inclosed mechanism.

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A hollow basc'l is surmounted by a fulcrum-stand 2. In the fulcrum-stand is pivotally mounted the beam .3, such as is usual in even scales, and, preferably, a lower On the ends of beam 3 are pivotally mounted, in the usual way, a scale pan 4, for receiving the weights 19, and the pan 5, for receiving the merchandise to be weighed. A finger 14 extends from the end of beam 3 which carries pan 5. One end of base 1 is surmounted by a hollow standard 16, which in turn is surmounted by dial 10. On the dial 10 is pivotally mounted a hand or indicator 15. The dial is graduated to indicate ounces and fractions of an, ounce. Underneath and within base 1 is mounted a second beam, 8, fulcrumed on a pending bracket 7 and so formed that the shorter end balances the longer end with the appurtenances. Beam 8 is connected with finger 14 by a vertical rod 6 by means of knife pivots. The opposite end of beam 8 is connected with dial 10 by a rod 9, also by means of a knife pivot. The upper end of rod 9 is provided with a rack, which meshes with a cor responding pinion mounted on the" shaft which carries hand 15. A spring member 11 preferably a flat spring, as shown in Fig. 2, is rigidly secured to base, 1 at one of its ends, and has its opposite end pivotally connected with beam 8 by means of a link 17. A set screw 12 serves to adjust the tension and position of spring member 11. The upper end of rod 6, where it is pivoted to finger 14, is slotted vertically, so as to allow some play of the pivot secured in finger 14. An adjusting screw 13, with a lock-nut 20, is rovided in base 1 under pan 4, in order to limit the amplitude of the downward motion of said p The operation of my invention will now be readily understood. The dealer wishes to weigh, say, ten pounds of sugar. He does not place a ten pound weight upon pan 4, as is done with the conventional even scales, but he places nine pounds of weights upon pan 4. He then pours the sugar rapidly into pan 5. When he has poured nine pounds, the beam 3 balances, linger 14 descends slightly till it strikes the bottom of the slot in rod 6. The sprin scale member now begins l1 the final pound. Finger the dispenser.-

' that any one skilled in the art pertaining 14' presses down rod 6, which in turn depresses the short end of beam 8, thus raising the lon end and rod 9 pivoted thereto, and rod 9, t ough its rack turns hand 15. Beam 8 is moved against the force of spring member 11, which has been adjusted roperly. The dealer sees when the even scale egins to balance, and also seeshand 15 advancingf He is thus admonished and now pours the sugar more carefully and stops when hand 15 reaches the sixteen-ounce mark. It will be understood that, in as much as spring member 1 1 is required to weigh only a small quantity, it can be very delicately adjusted and may be depended upon to weigh accurately, and it will also be appreciated that, however large the quantityjheweven scales are required to weigh, the spring member is still required to weigh only the small final fractional part. The dial 10 may be so arranged that it is visible both to the customer and Having thus described my invention so thereto may make and use it I claim- In weighing scales, the combination of a hollow base, a fulcrum-standard, even scales comprising a beam, a weight-pan and a weighing-pan, and an indicating-scale member operatively connected with said even scales comglilsing a connecting-rod ivoted to the weig g-pan end of the scale eam of said even scales and extending into said base, a beam pivoted in said base, one end of said beam plvoted to said connecting -rod, a hollow standard on one end of said base, a dial rovided with an indicator mounted on said ollow standard, and a rod extending through said hollow standard, pivoted to said beam in said base and operatively connected with the indicator of said dial by rack and pinion, all said arts so cooperating that when said even sea e is balanced by the initial fractional part of the uantity to be weighed" said mdicating-sca e member is brought into operation and indicates plainly by mensural parts the quantity added.

HENRY MAKER.

Witnesses:

MINNiE C. ROLLWAGE, JOHN E. HELLER. 

